Former WWE Divas Champion Paige officially pens goodbye to her tenure in WWE
Saraya Knight, aka Paige, officially bids farewell, and she does it gracefully and with much gratitude. The former NXT Women’s Champion and WWE Divas Champion took the opportunity to bid goodbye to her tenure in WWE.
She took the time to thank many individuals who had helped her along the way via the Player’s Tribune. Paige took the cap of many names such as Tenille Dashwood, Dusty Rhodes and many more.
“When I first got to WWE, we weren’t very far removed from the time of bra-and-panties matches,” Knight wrote. “A lot of people still considered the women’s match on every show to be the ‘pee break.’ And I’ll always feel such a kinship with the women of my era, because we worked so damn hard to prove ourselves. To prove that we couldn’t just wrestle — we could wrestle our asses off.”
On a recent episode of the “Gentleman Villain” podcast with William Regal, the former “NXT” General Manager named Knight and Dashwood as the pioneers who laid the groundwork for the so-called “women’s revolution” in “NXT,” but Knight herself gave an immense amount of credit to people all across the board.
“I’m also grateful for the CURRENT group of female wrestlers in WWE,” she wrote. “Everyone seems to have a different idea on where and when our Women’s Revolution started, but to me the where and when don’t matter. What matters is that it happened, and that women’s wrestling is in good hands with the talent on this roster. I’m incredibly honoured to have gotten to be a part of something so special, and can’t wait to see what the future brings.”
Paige was one of the most talented women wrestlers in WWE
Knight last wrestled in 2017, when she suffered an injury that led to her in-ring retirement. She was a former NXT Women’s Champion and former WWE Divas Champion. She notes that she returned to WWE in front of a live crowd, but unfortunately, her career was short end due to an injury.
Knight is set to appear at a special stage show at the end of July during Starrcast V in Nashville.
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